page_title: Ritchie Blackmore
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Ritchie Blackmore / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Deep Purple, December 1, 1970 Niedersachsenhalle, Hannover, Germany, The Touring Band 1970: Ian Gillan - Vocals, Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar, Jon Lord - Organ, Roger Glover - Bass Guitar, Ian Paice - Percussion
context_page_description: Ritchie Blackmore is an English guitarist. He is former member and founder of British hard rock band Deep Purple.
context_section_description: In the 1950s, Blackmore played with small bands. In 1968, Blackmore , with keyboardist Jon Lord, singer Rod Evans, bassist Nick Simper and drummer Ian Paice created the band Deep Purple. Deep Purple had a hit song in the United States with "Hush". Although they were doing well, Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple decided to get a different singer. They replaced Evans with Ian Gillan. The band's album Deep Purple In Rock was released in 1970. In 1972, Deep Purple made the album Machine Head. It included one of their most popular songs, "Smoke on the Water. In 1972, they recorded the live album Made in Japan. Gillan and Glover left the group in 1974. They were replaced with singer David Coverdale and bassist David Coverdale. The new Deep Purple released two albums Burn (1974) and Stormbringer (1974). Blackmore left the band soon after these albums were released.
  In 1984, Blackmore got together with Gillan, Glover, Lord and Paice and made the album Perfect Strangers. The album had many successes with the songs "Knocking at Your Back Door" and "Perfect Strangers". After recording the album The Battle Rages On, Blackmore left the band in 1993.
caption: Ritchie Blackmore in 1970
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